Game is over and the final score is Qatar 1-3 Senegal. Here is the match report.
The host country’s World Cup hopes were all but gone after Qatar lost to Senegal, 3-1, on Friday in a World Cup game that both teams desperately needed to win.
Senegal controlled the early part of the game and was rewarded with the first goal when Qatar defender Boualem Khoukhi badly bungled a clearance, the ball going nowhere. That gave Boulaye Dia a chance to sweep in and poach a fairly easy goal in the 41st minute.
Famara Diedhiou made it 2-0 with a rocket header straight off a corner from Ismail Jakobs in the 48th minute.
Qatar gained some hope when Mohammed Muntari leaped high and met a cross from Ismaeel Mohammad with his head for a goal in the 78th minute that cut Senegal’s lead to 2-1.
But Bamba Dieng clinched it for Senegal in the 84th minute with a shot that wrong-footed Qatar keeper Meshaal Barsham.
Qatar still had a mathematical shot to advance, but it would require beating the group’s best team, the Netherlands, by several goals and other results breaking just right.
Senegal put itself in good position, with its final game against Ecuador looking pivotal.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
4' Sarr's shot wide out
9' Mendy's long shot wide out
17' Diedhiou’s header wide out
20' Yellow Card! Ismaeel Mohammed booked
24' Gueye's long shot wide out
30' Sarr misses a good chance
34' Afif goes down in the box but ref says no penalty!
40' GOAL! Qatar 0-1 Senegal (Boulaye Dia)
47' GOAL! Qatar 0-2 Senegal (Famara Diédhiou)
61' Hassan's long shot inches wide
62' CLOSE! Ali's shot stopped by Mendy
67' SAVE! Fine stop from world-class Mendy
77' GOAL! Qatar 1-2 Senegal (Mohammed Muntari)
83' GOAL! Qatar 1-3 Senegal (Bamba Dieng)
83' Hassan's long shot wide out
Line-ups
Qatar XI: Hasan Al-Haydos, Karim Boudiaf, Boualem Khoukhi, Abdelkarim Hassan, Ismaeel Mohammed, Pedro Miguel, Almoez Ali, Akram Afif, Assim Madibo, Meshaal Barsham, Homam Ahmed
Subs: Saad Al-Sheeb, Abdulaziz Hatem, Ali Asad, Ahmed Alaaeldin, Musab Khoder, Mohammed Muntari, Salem Al-Hajri, Yousef Hassan, Tarek Salman, Mohammed Waad, Khalid Muneer Mazeed, Mustafa Mashaal, Naif Al-Hadhrami, Jassem Gaber Abdulsallam
Senegal XI: Gueye, Koulibaly, Nampalys Mendy, Sabaly, Edouard Mendy, Famara Diédhiou, Diallo, Sarr, Diatta, Ismail Jakobs, Boulaye Dia
Subs: Gomis, Seny Dieng, Cisse, Mamadou Loum, Pape Gueye, Pathé Ciss, Moustapha Name, Iliman Ndiaye, Moussa N'Diaye, Formose Mendy, Pape Matar Sarr, Nicolas Jackson, Bamba Dieng